The iris affair

16 OCTOBER

Sky’s new thriller sees Tom Hollander and Niamh Algar tearing through Italy’s most glamorous locations on a quest to crack a code – and save the world

NIAMH ALGAR on being embroiled in a dangerous cat-and-mouse chase

Created by Neil Cross, The Iris Affair is a high-stakes eight-part thriller series starring Niamh Algar as Iris Nixon, a codebreaker with a bounty on her head. Hired by entrepreneur Cameron Beck (Tom

11—17 OCTOBER 2025

High-stakes thriller The Iris Affair makes the most of its glamorous Italian locations — but that’s not hard to do…